Prognostic factors in victims of falls from height

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1239-1242

  Lapostolle, Frédéric ^a   Gere, Christophe ^a   Borron, Stephen W ^a   Pétrovic, Tomislav ^a   Dallemagne, Frédéric ^a   Beruben, Arielle ^a   Lapandry, Claude ^a   Adnet, Frédéric ^a  

^a AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; VICTIM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; FEMALE; FRANCE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 20444447691     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000164564.11989.C3     Document Type: Article

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